The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 27, 1991 - Page 3 Parties to D.C. talks .approach agreement WASHINGTON (AP) - Syria and the Palestinians edged closer yesterday to accepting a resumption of Mideast peace talks with Israel here on Dec.4. They raised "any number of questions" in their replies to a joint U.S.-Soviet invitation, and the Bush administration is insisting on un- qualified acceptances, Margaret Tutwiler, the State Department spokesperson, said. Israel is expected to give its an- swer after a Cabinet meeting today. The replies from Syria and the Palestinians "show a readiness to espond positively," Tutwiler said. Without disclosing the contents, she said there would be no U.S. re- ply to the questions even though they are "sincere." "Our proposal is out there," she added. "We are not accepting conditions." Monday was the deadline set by Secretary of State James Baker, but only Jordan and Lebanon accepted *Washington as the site and Dec. 4 as the starting date. Syria takes the position that Is- rael should agree beforehand to ne- gotiate on a basis of giving up land for peace. Syria's aim is to reclaim the Golan Heights, which it lost in the 1967 Six-Day war. The Palestinians want the Bush administration to issue visas to Calestine Liberation Organization members who are advisers to the Palestinian delegation. Tutwiler said waivers of the Congressional ban on PLO visas would not be issued for the Wash- ington talks. In Jerusalem, Hanan Ashrawi, a spokesperson for the Palestinians, said "our response is that, in princi- ple, the Palestinians have no objec- *ion to attend the bilaterals in Washington. The final decision is pending. Several issues have to be worked out." She said some were practical, procedural issues and others dealt with "issues of substance." Baker, in consultation with So- viet Foreign Minister Eduard She- vardnadze, set the time and place to 4esume the Mideast peace conference after the Arabs and Israel were un- able to come to terms. They conferred again yesterday by telephone, and Shevardnadze "is working on his end as cosponsor." The administration has sent Is- rael and the Arabs what U.S. offi- cials called "suggestions" on how to tackle the tough issues ahead if &and when the talks resume. DNR compiles ranking of state's pollution sites Leaking underground tanks found most often LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan has 3,347 ranked pollu- tion sites, but leaking underground P1 0o i e storage tanks push the total figure to about 8,500 sites altogether, the Department of Natural Resources The following is a list of the 23 worst pollution sites in (DNR) said yesterday. Michigan, including the county they are located in. The But DNR officials said sites are list was released yesterday by the Department of Natural slowly being cleaned up, and few Resources. major new sites are being found. However, the agency is finding G & H Landfill, Macomb about 200 leaking underground Fivenson Iron and Metal, Alpena tanks a month. General Motors Power Train, Bay "We are discovering historical Mount Clemens Coatings and Plastics, Macomb releases" from long-buried gasoline Portage Creek-Kalamazoo River, Kalamazoo and oil tanks, said Andrew Hogarth Auto Specialities, Berrien of the DNR. "We're not finding the big monster sites like we did 10 or Bay City Middlegrounds, Bay 15 years ago." Bofor's Lakeway Chemical, Muskegon The list released yesterday is a Cleveland Street Landfill, lonia proposed ranking of Michigan pol- Du Wel Bangor, Van Buren lution sites. After hearings and re- Hartley and Hartley, Bay view by the Legislature, the DNR Petroleum Specialities Inc., Wayne will issue a final list next spring to Port of Monroe Landfill, Monroe be used in deciding where to spend money on cleanup in the fiscal year Rose Township Dump Site, Oakland beginning next Oct. 1. State Prison of Southern Michigan, Jackson For the current fiscal year, offi- Village of Douglas Contamination, Allegan cials said, $80 million came from Arkona Road Landfill, Washtenaw the state's 1988 bond program, $70 Cannelton Industries, Chippewa million from the federal Superfund Duo Tank Products, Van Buren program and a small amount from Manistique River Slips, Schoolcraft the state's general fund. Marathon Oil Prod Laketon, Muskeon So far, about $275 million has MaahnOlPo9aeoMseo been spent on pollution cleanup, of- Sunstrand Heat Transfer Inc., Cass ficials said. Cleanup action is un- Tri Township Landfill, Berrien derway at about 6,000 sites. The list ranks the sites under a new scoring system which reflects for No. 2 was Fiveson Iron and while 14 have been "delisted" be- the risk that each site poses to the Metal in Alpena, a scrap metal and cause of cleanups and five more were environment and public health. salvage yard, and General Motors dropped for technical reasons. Still No. 1 is G & H Landfill in Power Train in Bay City, where dis- Meanwhile, 78 of the worst sites Macomb County's Shelby Town- carded machinery leaked PCBs. are on the federal government's list ship, where millions of gallons of According to DNR officials, of Superfund sites which get federal industrial waste liquids were more than 500 sites which appeared money for cleanup. dumped in the late 1950s to 1966. on the pollution list since it started The leaking tanks are being found The 80-acre site is now closed. in 1984 have been totally cleaned up. so fast they haven't all been ranked, "It is a major problem site," "We're doing everything we can following a new program to combat Hogarth said. "It received more in- to speed up the cleanup process," such pollution by digging up rusted dustrial waste than any site we're Hogarth said. tanks and replacing them. More than aware of." Compared to the last list, the 4,000 leaky tanks have cleanup activ- Jumping from obscurity to a tie latest list includes 619 new sites, ities underway. Next, number 27 (You're number 95) Mitch West, an LSA senior, is one of many students who waited over half an hour for a computer at the Union computing center yesterday. U.S. erects shelter for 2,500 Haitians WASHINGTON (AP) - A military task force began putting up the first tents at the U.S. naval base in Cuba yesterday to provide tempo- rary shelter for 2,500 Haitian boat people. Pentagon spokesperson Pete Williams said the decision to trans- fer the Haitians to the Guantanamo naval base was made because of "intolerable" overcrowding aboard Coast Guard cutters which have been rescuing the refugees. "I don't know what alternative the (defense) department or the Coast Guard has," Williams said. About 1,000 Haitians are aboard two Navy ships and 3,100 others are aboard 15 Coast Guard cutters. The Haitians have been fleeing their troubled land in large numbers for the past four weeks following a military coup. None have been able- to find a permanent home except for 120 who have been admitted to the United States as political refugees. About 350 have been accepted on a temporary basis in Honduras and Venezuela. The Bush administration repatriated 538 Haitians last week but a federal judge halted the prac- tice the day after it was started. The administration is attempting to have the order reversed, saying the overwhelming majority of the refugees are economic refugees who are not entitled to admission to the United States. The Rev. Jesse Jack- son and Rep. Charles Rangel (D- N.Y.) led a protest in front of the White House demanding that Haitians be admitted. The 850 military personnel being dispatched to the base included sol- diers from Fort Lewis, Wash., and Fort Bragg, N.C. The 135 tents they will set up have a capacity for about 20 people each. Officials hope all will be in place by the weekend. In Cuba, base commander Capt. William McCamy said, "My direc- tion is to start building a camp." McCamy said some Haitian refugees are already being housed at an old National Guard camp on the base. The Coast Guard said it rescued 506 Haitians aboard seven sailboats on Monday, bringing to 5,054 the number picked up by its cutters since Oct. 29. Corrections ROTC does not provide scholarships to all of its students, and those that do receive money are not compensated for room and board. This in- formation was incorrectly reported in an editorial in yesterday's Daily. Eleanor Schwartz, the author of a letter to the editor in Monday's Daily, was spelled incorrectly. THE LIST .What's happening in Ann Arbor today We the people A copy of the Constitution hangs outside the entrance to the Law Library. George Sperling, a 1940 graduate, gave it to the University in 1989 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Two Detroiters die after state welfare cuts .Meetings U-M Baha'i Club, weekly mtg. Stock- well, Rosa Parks Lounge, 8-9:30. Korean Student Association, weekly mtg. Ugli Lounge, 5 p.m. Public Interest Research Group in Michigan, weekly mtg. 4109 Union, 9:30. Recycle U-M, weekly mtg. Dana Bldg, Student Lounge, 7 p.m. Students Concerned About Animal Rights, weekly mtg. Dominick's, 9 p.m. MSA Environmental Commission, weekly mtg. Dominick's, 5 p.m. Speakers ('Stepwise Electrophilic Additions - Synthetic Utilization of an Old Con- cept," Ron Caple, University of Min- nesota. 1640 Chem, 4 p.m. "Supercritical Fluid Extraction: An Overview," Michael Akard. 1650 Chem Bldg,4 p.m. "The Stationary Bootstrap" Dimitris, Politis, Purdue University .451 Mason, 3 p.m. "Technology, Development and Democracy," Kenneth DeWoskin. 1014 Dow, 3:30-5. Furthermore Dec. 1. Both services will resume full operation on Monday, Dec. 2. U-M Ninjitsu Club, Wednesday prac- tice. IM Bldg, wrestling rn, 7:30-9. U-M Women's Lacrosse Club, Wednesday practice. Oosterbaan Field House, 9-10:30. ECB Peer Writing Tutors. An- gell/Mason Computing Center, 7-11. Ultimate Frisbee Club. All skill levels welcome. Oosterbaan Fieldhouse, 7-9. U-M Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Club, Wednesday workout. CCRB Martial Arts Rm, 8-9. U-M Taekwondo Club, Wednesday workout. CCRB Martial Arts Rm, 6:30-8 p.m. Guild House Beans and Rice Dinner. 802 Monroe, 6-7. Support Group for those ages 17-25 whose parent has died. Gabriel Richard Center at Saint Mary's Chapel, 7-8:30. "Thinking About Majoring in En- glish?" Talk to English Advisor Derek Green every Wednesday. Haven 7th floor lounge, 4-5. The Yawp Literary Magazine, manuscripts and artwork accepted. 1210 Angell. "Against Greed," submissions ac- DETROIT (AP) - While attor- neys argued over a ban on police in- terference with a tent city protest- ing homelessness, two men cut off welfare died in an abandoned house yesterday. The men died from fumes of a portable heater inside a house on the city's southwest side, police and the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said. The men were using a portable charcoal heater when they were overcome by fumes. Keith Hunter, an investigator for the medical ex- aminer, said they died of carbon monoxide poisoning. A third man was rushed to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where he was in critical condition yester- day afternoon, hospital spokes- person Diane Cooper said. Neighbors told WJBK-TV and WWJ-AM the men were Cuban immigrants who came to this coun- try as part of the Mariel Boat Lift of 1980. They reportedly became homeless when the state ended outside Cass United Methodist Church in the city's impoverished Cass Corridor neighborhood. The protest is needed "so you don't have people having to resort to putting burning barbecue coals in a stove and dying," group spokesman James Ford said yester- day. Ford said the group will put up other tents at the church and else- where. "We're not interested in inter- fering with anyone's constitutional rights," attorney David Fink, repre- senting the city, told Watts. About 20 people gathered at Englerville on Tuesday afternoon. Some went through an outdoor table covered with donated clothing while others took shelter from the icy wind inside the tent, partly filled with blankets, sleeping bags and clothing. "We do plan to put up another tent," said a homeless man who gave his name as Ronald. He blamed Wayne County medical personnel remove the first of two bodies from an abandoned home on Detroit's southwest side yesterday morning. The men died from fumes produced by a charcoal grill they were using for heat. formation about the victims. The bodies were found as attor- neys for Detroit and a homeless rights group returned to court to clined to issue a preliminary injunc- tion but kept her temporary order in effect until a hearing next Monday. Watts approved terms under which